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DESCRIPTION. 



LVL E. Naudiniana, F.v.M. 



In Australasian Journal of Fharmacii (Melbourne), July, 18S6. 



As this publication is not readily accessible to botanists, I publish such portions of 

 Mueller's paper, " Description of an hitherto unrecorded species of Eucalyptus from 

 New Britain " as are necessary. Mueller, in a prefatory note, speaks of the plant as 

 being to " all appearance a veritable species of Eucalyptus." He saw no fruit and 

 apparently no buds, hence his uncertainty. 



Eucnlyptus Nmidiniana. — Branclilets valid, angular ; leaves scattered, on short broadish stalks, 

 ovate-lanceolar, acuminate, much paler beneath ; their primary veins distant, thin, very spreading and 

 somewhat ascending, the peripheral vein not quite close to the edge of the leaf ; veinlets subtle ; oil-dots 

 much concealed ; panicles ample, terminal or from the upper axils ; flowers small, nine or often fewer in each 

 umbel ; stalklets angular, as long as the total calyx or somewhat longer ; tube of the latter hemispheric, 

 slightly angular ; lid hardly longer, almost semiglobular, suddenly produced into a thin beak-like apex ; 

 stamens all fertile and all inlleeted while in bud ; anthers minute roundish-ovate, bursting longitudinally ; 

 style short ; stiginsi not dilated ; ovary surpassed by the calyx-tube, somewhat convex and angular at the 

 summit. 



Near Spacious Bay ; J. Turner. (G. Turner, who was with the Rev. Mr. Brown at the time.). The 

 specimens communicated by Ch. Moore, Esij., F.L.S., Director of the Botanic Garden of Sydney. New 

 Ireland, Rev. G. Brown. (This is an error; it should be New Britain, so the Rev. Dr. G. Brown tells me. — 

 J.H.M. A tree attaining a height of about 100 feet. Leaves usually 3-4 inches long, Ij-l | inches broad, 

 slightly inequilateral, not very thick in texture, dark-green and shining above, quite dull beneath. Panicles 

 measuring from a few to .several inches, the majority of their branches not opposite. Total length of the 

 calyces hardly more than \ inch. Stamens very numerous. Stjle only about ^ inch long. Fruit unknown. 

 This species bears in some respects near affinity to E. Cloeziana ; but the branchlets are much thicker, the 

 leaf-stalks dilated upwards, the leaves broader, less oblique and of firmer structure, with a soft lustre on the 

 surface, the branches of the panicle and also the stalkk^ts are more angular, while the lid is conspicuously 

 pointed, the ovary less depressed, and the style shorter. The fruit, irrespective of perhaps bark and wood, 

 may also be ditferent. 



Notes supplementary to the Description. 



Neither Eich (Asa Gray, sec below) nor Mueller saw the buds or ojiercula of 

 this species, and both had some doubts as to the genus of the plant. 



My complete specimens, however, remove all doubt, and the description may 

 be supplemented as follows : — 



Juveililft Ic.lVCS. — Branchlets llattoiicd to ([uadrangular, nicire or less glandular-prickly ; leaves 

 nearly synnnetrical, nearly oval, at the base tapering into ashoit petiole and at the apex into a blunt point 

 texture thin, paler on the under side, venation marked, particularly on the under side, intramnrginal vein 

 not evident, sometimes triplinervod, secondary veins arr.uiged concavcly with respect to the midrib and not 

 opposite each other. Ultimate veins reticulate. 



Flower-lmds. — Operculum conical, the calyx-tube about of (Miual length, which then tapers 

 .somewhat abruptly into a jiedicel in length about ecjual to that of the bud. 



The tree has a smooth bark, and reddish tiiuber. It is cut foi commercial juirpos^s in a local saw- 

 mill. 



